U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick attends an interview, extracurricular the White House, successful Washington, D.C., U.S., June 11, 2025.
Kent Nishimura | Reuters
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicted the Bureau of Labor Statistics' incoming Friday jobs study volition beryllium much close arsenic a effect of President Donald Trump firing the agency's main successful August.
"I deliberation they'll get better," Lutnick told CNBC's "Squawk Box" erstwhile asked whether radical should judge the BLS' numbers are close erstwhile the latest monthly jobs study is released astatine 8:30 a.m. ET.
Trump had fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer connected Aug. 1, hours aft her bureau reported that U.S. occupation maturation had importantly slowed successful July.
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